Around the Region: Four Injured in Police Chase, Masturbating Driver Alarms Women and Help Needed Identifying Remains

– Loganville Patch

Patricia R. Hudson, 52, of Winder, was checked out of  and into the  Monday following a chase and accident on Highway 81 Sunday night.

According to a spokesman from Georgia State Patrol, Trooper John Taylor turned his vehicle around and attempted a traffic stop on a Ford Focus that he had met in a curve northbound on Highway 81 just before 6:30 p.m. Sunday. There was a short pursuit, which ended with the driver leaving the road and overcorrecting before crossing the centerline and hitting an oncoming Kia Sedona head-on. The driver and two passengers - one a 3-year-old child - in the Kia, as well as Hudson, were transported to Walton Regional Medical Center.

Hudson is facing charges of driving under the influence, fleeing and attempting to elude, driving on the wrong side of the road, felony obstruction of an officer, and felony obstruction of EMS. 

– Norcross Patch

Two women allegedly saw a man masturbating in his car while they were walking on Danbury Drive near Jimmy Carter Boulevard last month. According to the Gwinnett County police report, the women, 20 and 19, were walking from their home to Spender Drive around 7 p.m. March 29.

One of the women noticed an unknown man slowly driving by them, but didn't inform the other until he passed them twice. When he passed them a third time, both victims saw the suspect allegedly masturbating. He passed them twice more until they decided to call the police, which he overheard and left.

Both women described the male as a "heavy set" Hispanic. One of the victims said he was possibly wearing a white T-shirt with a baseball hat. She also told police that she believes he was masturbating all five times he passed them.

– Marietta Patch

 hope a forensic facial reconstruction will help identify the remains unearthed by construction workers on Scufflegrit Road in 1993.

The victim is a white female born between 1957 and 1962. She was around 5’03” to 5’06” tall and 100 to 120 pounds. The victim was discovered wearing a white halter top, a scarf with an orange and pink diamond print design, a sleeveless tan jacket, elastic band slacks, a 24” strand of white beads with imprinted blue flowers separated by gold-color metal beads and multi-colored bead earrings.